“If I've learned anything in the past six months, it's that life is a fickle little bitch and there's not one damn thing I can do to tame her. It's almost laughable, really.”
― Ashley Herring Blake, quote from Suffer Love
“His eyes said everything. They always did.”
― Ashley Herring Blake, quote from Suffer Love
“The words fall out of my mouth like rain- I felt them coming, smelled them in the air, but there was nothing I could do to stop them.”
― Ashley Herring Blake, quote from Suffer Love
“I watch her duck into the building, a cavern in my chest so huge, I'm sure my next breath will flip me inside out.”
― Ashley Herring Blake, quote from Suffer Love
“If anyone can inspire you to believe in real, honest-to-God love stories again, it's William Shakespeare.”
― Ashley Herring Blake, quote from Suffer Love
“She tilts her head and puts her soft hand on my face, letting her fingertips glide down my neck, to my chest. She flattens her palm there, the heat of her hand searing through my shirt. "You're..." She pauses and I take a breath, my heart thumping madly. "I don't know. It sounds stupid, but... you're like home.”
― Ashley Herring Blake, quote from Suffer Love
“I tell myself that I don't need him. But he's the only person I want right now.”
― Ashley Herring Blake, quote from Suffer Love
“When he finally comes out, I edge down a little in the front seat of my car, torn between wanting to disappear and wanting him to see me so he'll know how much I hate him and love him and every blurry shade of gray in between.”
― Ashley Herring Blake, quote from Suffer Love
“My heart is crushed within me. Here is the truth: You made me love you- your eyes and mouth and voice. You pulled me into your heart. You don't want me there and I don't want to be there, but it's where I will always live.”
― Ashley Herring Blake, quote from Suffer Love
“I wanted you. I wanted us. You made all of this... I don't know. It sounds crazy, but you, in my life- knowing you almost made everything worth it.”
― Ashley Herring Blake, quote from Suffer Love
“Sam and me- star-crossed and still entangled up on a hill overlooking the city. On top of the world. I almost laugh at how ridiculous it is. How silly it is that we found each other, that we grounded each other, that we gave each other a sense of freedom and a home.”
― Ashley Herring Blake, quote from Suffer Love
“This shouldn't make sense," I say.
"What?"
"Us. You and me."
He presses his forehead to mine. "But we do. Maybe it's crazy, yeah, but it makes sense. We make sense.”
― Ashley Herring Blake, quote from Suffer Love
“I'm left with a mouthful of words that wouldn't have made a difference anyway.”
― Ashley Herring Blake, quote from Suffer Love
“Just because you're scared to like someone doesn't make the like go away.”
― Ashley Herring Blake, quote from Suffer Love
“He leans forward and gives me a lopsided grin. "Everything about you is unexpected.”
― Ashley Herring Blake, quote from Suffer Love
“I guess the world really does end with a whimper, he says after a moment. "A whole lot of quiet, a million things left unsaid until it's too late to say them.”
― Ashley Herring Blake, quote from Suffer Love
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“He seemed a part of the mute melancholy landscape, an incarnation of it's frozen woe, with all that was warm and sentient in him fast bound below the surface; but there was nothing nothing unfriendly in his silence. I simply felt that he lived in a depth of moral isolation too remote for casual access, and I had the sense that his loneliness was not merely the result of his personal plight, tragic as I guessed that to be, but had in it, as Harmon Gow had hinted, the profound accumulated cold of many Starkfield winters.”
― Edith Wharton, quote from Ethan Frome
“Nothing is perfect. It's not even good yet. But maybe.”
― Katja Millay, quote from The Sea of Tranquility
“You may be your own best helper, if you choose the right path.”
― Juliet Marillier, quote from Daughter of the Forest
“There's an old Jewish story that says in the beginning God was everywhere and everything, a totality. But to make creation, God had to remove Himself from some part of the universe, so something besides Himself could exist. So He breathed in, and in the places where God withdrew, there creation exists."
So God just leaves?"
No. He watches. He rejoices. He weeps. He observes the moral drama of human life and gives meaning to it by caring passionately about us, and remembering."
Matthew ten, verse twenty-nine: Not one sparrow can fall to the ground without your Father knowing it."
But the sparrow still falls.”
― Mary Doria Russell, quote from The Sparrow
“Never seek the wind in the field—it is useless to try and find what is gone.” Your”
― Jeffrey Archer, quote from Kane and Abel
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